README.md

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Radicle Heartwood Protocol & Stack

Heartwood is the third iteration of the Radicle Protocol, a powerful peer-to-peer code collaboration and publishing stack. The repository contains a full implemention of Heartwood, complete with a user-friendly command-line interface (rad) and network daemon (radicle-node).

Radicle was designed to be a secure, decentralized and powerful alternative to code forges such as GitHub and GitLab that preserves user sovereignty and freedom.

See the Protocol Guide for an in-depth description of how Radicle works.

Installation

Requirements

• Linux or Unix based operating system.
• Git 2.34 or later
• OpenSSH 9.1 or later with ssh-agent

📀 From binaries

Requires curl and tar.

Run the following command to install the latest binary release:

curl -sSf https://radicle.xyz/install | sh

📦 From source

Requires the Rust toolchain.

You can install the Radicle stack from source, by running the following commands from inside this repository:

cargo install --path radicle-cli --force --locked
cargo install --path radicle-node --force --locked
cargo install --path radicle-remote-helper --force --locked

Or directly from our seed node:

cargo install --force --locked --git https://seed.radicle.xyz/z3gqcJUoA1n9HaHKufZs5FCSGazv5.git \
    radicle-cli radicle-node radicle-remote-helper

Running

Systemd unit files are provided for the node and HTTP daemon under the /systemd folder. They can be used as a starting point for further customization.

Additionally, a Dockerfile is included under both crates.

For running in debug mode, see HACKING.md.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md and HACKING.md for an introduction to contributing to Radicle.

License

Radicle is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0).

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.